What do you think of Face-Off surgeries?
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September 23rd, 2011
Do you think it’s true that anybody can easily wear the face of someone else like his brother/sister, friend, lover, (maybe his favorite pet)
And if it is true, do you like the idea or not? Would you like to try it?
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You’ve heard that people can wear the face of a pet? What sorcery is this??
Even if this were true, which it certainly is not, it would most likely be gruesome.
Face/Off was a horrible movie. I kinda love it, granted, but the premise is stupid to the point of hilarious.
In a hypothetical real “Face/Off” surgery, the risk of rejection is the same as that for any skin graft—meaning the thing might just be eaten by your own immune system and rot off your skull, and at best there’s a long healing time. And we can’t regrow lost ears with a magical laser copy machine.
I can’t tell if that link is meant to be in jest.
I don’t think the end result is quite what the OP is imagining.
Important part of @FutureMemory ‘s link
“After the procedure a lifelong regimen of immunosuppressive drugs is necessary to suppress the patient’s own immune systems and prevent rejection. Long-term immunosuppression increases the risk of developing life-threatening infections, kidney damage, and cancer. The surgery may result in complications such as infections that could turn the new face black and require a second transplant or reconstruction with skin grafts.”
Oh, and you probably won’t be winning the Miss America pageant afterward, either.
I imagine it would come in handy for a person that had their face burned off (in an accident or something), and they had a friend or relative that volunteered to donate their face if they died. It would be sort of creepy, but a better option than the mutilated face?
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